These web pages are text-only and can be accessed using an Apple //e running the Contiki suite of internet apps. The Contiki browser can surf any text-only pages including those offered at www.apple2.org

My Apple //e uses an "Apple II Ethernet Module" purchased from a2retrosystems.com on Jan. 22, 2011 for $89 in order to connect to the internet. The ethernet card is also used by ADTPro (Apple Disk Transfer ProDOS) to transfer disk images between a PC and the Apple //e physical 5.25" floppy disks.

On July 12, 2012 my dad installed a CFFA3000 card purchased 6/15/2012 from dreher.net for $175.10 (including 'remote buttons' + S/H). The CFFA card allows the Apple //e to use a USB memory stick as virtual floppy disks and/or hard drives. So now my Apple //e can boot to a "ProDOS 8 v2.0.3 06-May-93" partition in virtual slot 7; or, boot from a DOS 3.3 floppy disk image in virtual slot 6, emulating a "Disk II controller".

I've written numerous programs on the Apple //e and my laptop. The WindowsXP laptop uses "A2 Oasis" to emulate an Apple //e. I've also used AppleWin which can emulate a Mockingboard, sound card. They still make those, you know - Mockingboards!

To speed up programs written in AppleSoft BASIC, I use the "Microsoft TASC v2.0 1/10/82" compiler. Yes, among dad's collection of old 5.25" floppies was the compiler, back when Microsoft made software for the Apple //e.

My programs that control "real world I/O" use a custom game-port interface board built by my dad in November 2011.

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